According to Trump officials, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has withdrawn his name from consideration for Secretary of State under the new administration. Savor this short moment of good news before Donald Trump undoubtedly replaces him with someone far worse!

On Thursday night, Alabama inmate Ronald Bert Smith, Jr. was executed for a 1994 murder. Smith had previously brought a lawsuit against the state of Alabama, which was dismissed in November, claiming that the state’s three-drug execution process constituted cruel and unusual punishment. His execution took 34…

Varietyreported on Friday that The Big Short screenwriter Charles Randolph pitched a film about Ailes’s long-running and frequent tenure as an employed alleged sexual harasser and it was scooped up by Annapurna Pictures, which made 20th Century Women and Joy, among others. Because the actual tale has such a clear…

Time can really throw you for a loop. We learned that Friday, when Rita Ora joined Wendy Williams on her couch to promote her new job onAmerica’s Next Top Model. During the interview, Rita claimed that she’s a big fan of Wendy’s show. A reminder: a year ago, Wendy literally asked “Who is this woman?” when shown a…

For probably millions of people, many of them too young to remember a time when music didn’t readily flow from the internet like water from a faucet, it doesn’t matter what the Jack Antonoff-produced Taylor Swift/ZAYN duet “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” sounds like; it only matters that it exists at all. And existing is…

The Body Shop isn’t just for great smelling body lotions and bridal shower gifts. The skin care at The Body Shop is low key amazing. I’ve tried most of the Vitamin C line and I highly recommend it. And right now, you can buy three gifts for people on your list, and get three things for yourself for free (or vice…

Tomorrow, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, a gun-totin’ pro-life economic populist who’s been billed as the Democrats’ last hope, will vie against Republican State Treasurer John Kennedy for a seat in the Senate in Louisiana’s runoff election. In the unlikely event of Campbell’s win, Senate…

GQ hosted a Men of the Year party in Los Angeles on Thursday night and, lo and behold, WOMEN also attended. Instead of boring vanilla suits, the men heeded GQ’s style tips and showed off in thrilling experimental prints, a la the standouts above: Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek in a blazer that looks like a cool oil painting, …

Hello, welcome to Shade Court, and no, I did not include Donald Trump’s Hitler-lite Time Magazine cover because I honestly believe I will disintegrate into a pile of material frustration if I have to write about that man today.

Despite the endless ballyhooing of the Carrier job-saving deal that Trump and Pence have been touting as a win for Indianapolis’s blue-collar workers, just 800 actual jobs were saved, with a whopping 2100 being exported from Indiana to China and Mexico. As it turns out, some of those 800 jobs will be phased out,…

2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes surprised almost everyone. Its teaser trailer, which showed James Franco unconvincingly saying things like, “YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE DEALING WITH,” to other scientists, was easy to ridicule, and the very idea that Hollywood would reboot such a campy series was offensive to…

Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the Energy Department for a list of names of all agency employees and contractors who worked on the Obama administration’s climate change policy. A 74-point questionnaire, first reported on by Bloomberg and obtained by Politico, is being circulated by the DOE.